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April 30, 2013

The Obama administration is trying its best to block State Department officials from telling the truth about the Benghazi attack.

At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency are attempting to retain lawyers as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress.

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Now we find that the State Department is trying to block lawyers from representing the Benghazi whistleblowers (second link below).

Why? Is the Obama administration desperate to hide their neglect in protecting the four dead Americans in Benghazi and cover up the perjury of Hillary Clinton?

According to a new study from the Urban Institute millions of Americans suffered a loss of wealth during the recession but the last five years has proved far worse for black and Hispanic families than for white families.

“It was already dismal,” Darrick Hamilton, a professor at the New School in New York, said of the wealth gap between black and white households. “It got even worse.”

One wonders then why a majority of blacks and Hispanics keep supporting Barack Obama when they are faring far worse under his presidency?

America’s hardest working golfer ever has bent his shoulder to the clubs and really made an effort to improve his terrible golf game. The economy, not so much.

According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours).

Throughout his time in office, President Obama has played 115 total rounds of golf and spent 86 days on vacation, for an estimated combined total of 976 hours.

It’s the good life for the president and the bad life for the country.

April 29, 2013

A jury convicted Butch Morgan and Dustin Blythe of forging signatures to get Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Indiana's 2008 primary Ballot. Morgan headed up the St. Joseph County Democratic Party and Blythe worked in the registration office. It took the jury just 3 and a half hours to reach a verdict.

More than five years after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses and demolished the notion that white voters wouldn’t support a black presidential candidate, progress for other African-American politicians remains elusive.

Even as the country elected and reelected Obama, making it seem increasingly unremarkable to have a black family in the White House, African-Americans are scarce and bordering on extinct in the U.S. Senate and governorships.

After Mr. Obama broke the presidential color barrier in 2008 - there has not been one black person elected to the Senate.

The only blacks in the Senate were appointed to fill vacant seats.

The only black governor, Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, was originally elected before Obama was elected to the presidency. Although Patrick won reelection, he may leave the ranks of black governors empty when he leaves after 2013.

A cadre of promising, next-generation black politicians have either lost races (Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, Reps. Kendrick Meek of Florida and Artur Davis of Alabama) or seen their careers extinguished because of scandal (former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.).

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The situation is particularly embarrassing for Democrats, to whom black voters give the vast majority of their support.

Until Senator Mo Cowan (D-Mass.) was appointed in February, the only African-American in the Senate was a Republican!

The House Committee on the Judiciary reported Sheila Jackson Lee (pictured), a Democrat Congresswoman from Texas, traveled around the world on an official trip in February that cost $23,646. The February 16-22 trip on commercial flights was to Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia.

She could have traveled with a group that included several members of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption.

Instead Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took commercial flights over and caught up with the delegation in Seoul, South Korea.

After visiting South Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia she then left the delegation early for her return commercial fight through Frankfurt Germany.

The trip costs included $19,970 for transportation, $1,292 for per diem, and $2,385 for other purposes.

One commenter wrote: “She could have gone only halfway around the world and saved us $11,823 but that would be too much to hope for.”